- 1慈善、慈善事業
Philanthropy is the practice of giving money and help to people who are poor or in trouble, and, more loosely, to causes meant to serve the public. It is the name of the activity. The person is a ; the style of giving is . This is a formal, slightly grand word. Everyday English is more likely to say charity or giving. People stretch it: a billionaire funding a museum is called philanthropy in the papers, even if no hungry person is fed that day. Some speakers are happy with that stretch; some are not. The old pieces mean “love of humans,” which is why the word can feel bigger than “a donation.”
From the word’s history
From Late Latin philanthrōpia, from Ancient Greek φιλανθρωπία; phil- + -anthropy.
源自古希臘文 φιλανθρωπία，即 phil- 加 -anthropy。
組成Borrowed from Late Latin philanthrōpia, from Ancient Greek philanthrōpía. By the look of the English word: phil- (“love”) + -anthropy (“humankind”).
同家族的字
- philanthropista person who practises philanthropy
- philanthropicthe adjective for this kind of giving
- anthropologyshares Greek anthropos “human being”
- philosophyshares Greek phil- “love”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
philanthropynoun/fɪˈlæn.θɹə.pi/
- 1
Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of humankind.
- Secondly, Another excellent Diſpoſition in Chriſt, is his Love, not only his Phylanthropy, or good Will he bears to all men, and the Deſire he hath of their Salvation, Ezek[iel] 33. 11.
- [T]he spirit of the Gospel has given to many of its enlightened disciples, the impulse of such a philanthropy as carries abroad their wishes and their endeavours to the very outskirts of human population—philanthropy, of which, if you asked the extent or the boundary of its field, we should answer, in the language of inspiration, that 'the field is the world;' a philanthropy which overlooks all the distinctions of cast and of colour, and spreads its ample regards over the whole brotherhood of the species; a philanthropy which attaches itself to man in the general; […]
- 2
Charitable giving, charity.
- As public funding is reduced, we depend increasingly on private philanthropy.
- I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. If there is the least hint of philanthropy in the project, every man of money fights shy of it.
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A philanthropic act.
- His tombstone lists his various philanthropies.
- By all accounts Mrs. Morden was a faithful civic worker, unpretentious in her philanthropies which were carried on even after her retirement from Sunday School work. Her brother has a happy memory of the church's presenting her with a gift in appreciation of her long years of service.
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A charitable foundation.
- the Rockefeller philanthropies
- […] Walter Vrooman, a well-to-do Kansas liberal, and Charles A. Beard, undertook a philanthropy designed to build solidly on a British base. The scheme they worked out for a labor college at Oxford, Ruskin Hall, met with fairly cordial British response and in time played a role of some importance in the labor movement.
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